Word: fixing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...inspiration of the School of Expression is John Russell Young, 55, White House correspondent of the Washington Star, who looks so much like a storybook Senator that waiters always serve him first. He is a delight to President Roosevelt, who calls him "the Senator," and when in a tight fix at press conferences often finds an out with: "I think I'll deliver the Senator's No. 17." Young, good schoolmaster that he is, has a set of speeches for any occasion. No. 1 is "Our Flag," No. 8 is "America the Beautiful...
Embarrassed were some Treasury officials when members of the Congressional Committee pointed out that when the last tax bill was framed they and the State Department had urged Congress to fix at 10% instead of 22% the tax on U. S. income going to foreigners. Not one of these was Mr. Magill, but he had embarrassments of his own. As a special Treasury adviser he had a large hand in making the tax bill of 1934 whose loopholes he is now pointing out. Moreover, before becoming Under Secretary, he was a professor at Columbia University and wrote several learned books...
...work; 3) prohibition of strikebreaking, labor espionage, child labor. To achieve these objectives the Act creates a five-man Labor Standards Board named by the President with Senate confirmation. Future Board members are to be paid $10,000 a year, serve five-year terms and will have power to fix and vary minimum wages and maximum hours of U. S. labor (except farm labor) subject only to top limits of 80? per hour and $1,200 per year per worker. To disobey the Act or rulings of the Board is a misdemeanor punishable by a $500 fine or six months...
...small, carpeted, oak-paneled room in the offices of N. M. Rothschild & Sons on London's St. Swithin's Lane, six immaculate gentlemen gather every morning except Sundays and bank holidays to fix the world price of gold. These six men, the so-called Gold Committee, represent six great British bullion brokers: N. M. Rothschild & Sons, Mocatta & Goldsmid, Samuel Montagu & Co., Pixley & Abell, Sharps & Wilkins, Johnson, Matthey & Co. Before each member is a telephone directly connected with twelve telephones in his home office. There attentive clerks are connected with the firm's customers-other bullion brokers, mining...
Present to oppose the bill was R. V. Fletcher, counsel for the Association of American Railroads. He argued that there was no necessity to fix one more onerous law on railroads, that they were glad to do of their own free will what the bill proposed. The subcommittee's Chairman Alfred L. Bulwinkle of North Carolina and his colleagues were inclined to agree with him. Then Dr. Claus and Rex walked in. Eloquently the young engineer told of the months of training which he and Rex had undergone together at the famed Seeing Eye institute in Morristown...